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on a Kabul hotel. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
They're thought to have been
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Hello and welcome to our look ahead
to what the the papers will be | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
bringing us tomorrow. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
With me are Ben Chu,
the Economics Editor | 0:00:24 | 0:00:26 | |
at The Independent and Ruth Lea,
who's an Economics Adviser | 0:00:26 | 0:00:29 | |
for the Arbuthnot Banking Group. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Many of tomorrow's front
pages are already in. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:36 | |
The FT leads with news
that the German government has | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
taken a step towards breaking
a four-month deadlock, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
as Angela Merkel's Social Democratic
party voted in favour | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
of formal coalition talks. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:57 | |
The front page of The Express
features the BBC's interview | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
with French President Emmanuel
Macron and his comments that French | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
people would also vote to leave
the EU if they had the chance. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:15 | |
The I says wildlife conservationists
have issued a warning that the UK | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
is aiding sales of ivory,
because there is no outright ban | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
on sales on the illegal goods. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
The Telegraph leads with a story
about the British Army, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
the paper says that a lack
of resources means our troops | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
are struggling to keep up
with military advances in other | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
countries like Russia. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
this | 0:01:35 | 0:01:35 | |
So it's a mixed bag of stories
from those papers there, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
this with lots to discuss and more
front pages still to come in. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
Ben and Ruth, let's start things off
with our first story. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:47 | |
is the children's. The story of a
local, -- pendulum. With the | 0:01:47 | 0:01:54 | |
government in the peripheral and
time nobody looks like former | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
coalition talks might be able to
start, achieves success? -- Angela | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
Merkel. This is good news for her,
it has been for months now since the | 0:02:01 | 0:02:08 | |
inconclusive results of the Federal
elections which everybody expected | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
her to do well in and not have these
difficulties. Failed attempt to form | 0:02:12 | 0:02:19 | |
a coalition with the Liberals and
the Greens and now she has had to go | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
back to her old partners, the Social
Democrats, they voted today to open | 0:02:24 | 0:02:32 | |
talks for a new grand coalition.
Good news in the short term but | 0:02:32 | 0:02:37 | |
really a reminder of how quickly
political fortunes can change. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:41 | |
Angela Merkel was talked about last
summer of the strongest leader in | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
the EU and now she is really
hobbled, it initiates this together | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
she will not be in the driving seat.
Presumably have to make a lot of | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
concessions to Martin Schultz and
the general consensus is that she | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
will not be leading her party into
the next set of federal elections in | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
2020. We have got so used to her
being the leader of Europe, haven't | 0:03:04 | 0:03:10 | |
we? It is quite incredible to see
her here really struggling to hold | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
onto power. Germany was the leader
in Europe, unquestionably. It is | 0:03:14 | 0:03:21 | |
interesting about Martin Short, in
September the SPD did very badly. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:27 | |
They suffered having been in the
party and Martin Schultz said I am | 0:03:27 | 0:03:36 | |
not going into any more coalition
's. However it seems as though he | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
has soft and that view -- softened
that view and they will talk about | 0:03:40 | 0:03:46 | |
the detailed coalition arrangement
where there will be a lot of | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
concessions from Angela Merkel to
keep him on side. Then the detailed | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
agreement has to go to the SPD
membership, six months after the | 0:03:53 | 0:03:59 | |
election, the membership may throw
it out. She has gone almost | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
certainly from hero to zero. There
has really been a vacuum, who has | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
stepped in to its? Emmanuel Macron.
BSP to very many places. He has even | 0:04:08 | 0:04:18 | |
hosted President Trump in the Eiffel
Tower. Lots of people said they | 0:04:18 | 0:04:25 | |
handled him very well. Let's have a
look at expressed. -- of the | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
express. What he said about the
French if they ever had a chance to | 0:04:29 | 0:04:38 | |
have a referendum on the EU, he
thought they might vote for Frexit, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:45 | |
as it is known. Will that happen?
Hasn't given them a choice any time | 0:04:45 | 0:04:51 | |
soon. The point was he gives it will
a binary choice in the referendum | 0:04:51 | 0:04:56 | |
and people don't understand the
implications. He is making the point | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
that if you want people to to vote,
you have to give something concrete | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
to vote for which is also addressing
the reasons why they are feeling | 0:05:06 | 0:05:11 | |
that things are not the way they
should be. He has told Andrew Marr | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
that he didn't think the UK
referendum gave this opportunity. He | 0:05:15 | 0:05:21 | |
has been getting rave reviews from
UK political analysts and pundits it | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
is a straightforward way he has
approached all of these questions | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
thrown at him and I think that comes
over in this. Would friends vote for | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
Frexit? Quite possibly. -- France. A
bit of fresh air. We are so | 0:05:35 | 0:05:42 | |
surprised when a politician answers
a question. I think he has had a | 0:05:42 | 0:05:48 | |
good visit and the truth is he won't
let the French people have a vote on | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
this at all. No. And what became the
Lisbon Treaty in 2005, French voted | 0:05:52 | 0:06:00 | |
against the initial constitution and
it was ignored. That is called | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
democracy by the way. He had a good
meeting and also I assured his | 0:06:05 | 0:06:11 | |
relationship with Theresa May it was
good. Them agreed on the bilateral | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
agreement on security and talked
about Britain getting a bespoke | 0:06:14 | 0:06:21 | |
trade deal with the EU. There was a
lot of other stuff which was noise | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
but on the whole it was
satisfactory. He will have a pivotal | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
role, assumedly. He said I am not
doing the negotiating, it is up to | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
Michel Barnier, but he is clearly
going to be a figure in this. He and | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
Angela Merkel are absolutely pivotal
is that this is where the language | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
of the Brexit debate gets confusing,
he says bespoke deal but it doesn't | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
mean this bespoke deal that a lot of
people who support Brexit are hoping | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
for which is a very, a lot of
services involved and special | 0:06:53 | 0:06:58 | |
carveouts for the U.K.'s. It could
mean anything from what I have | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
described to a very limited deal
which is what Canada has, certainly | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
far below what Brexiteers and Brexit
ministers are roping. In -- are | 0:07:07 | 0:07:14 | |
hoping for. He has been very clear
about this, which again is | 0:07:14 | 0:07:20 | |
refreshing. If you are not the EU
you cannot be in the single market | 0:07:20 | 0:07:26 | |
in the way that you previously were.
You don't get the benefits of the | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
single market unless you are in the
single market. That is a pretty | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
sobering message for people hoping
for a very good deal of getting the | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
same benefits. All down to
negotiation. As far as I am | 0:07:39 | 0:07:44 | |
concerned, a bespoke deal doesn't
need to cover very much a. A | 0:07:44 | 0:07:50 | |
continuation of tariff free trade
and something with financial | 0:07:50 | 0:07:56 | |
services. This is saying that we
have a deal where both parties | 0:07:56 | 0:07:59 | |
benefit. Let's move on to UKIP. The
Guardian, UKIP in crisis after | 0:07:59 | 0:08:08 | |
leader loses vote of confidence.
Henry Bolte and's reskill friend, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:13 | |
with her for three weeks, sent text
which were deemed to be offensive | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
and racist and he has seemingly
ditched her. Can he survive this? I | 0:08:18 | 0:08:26 | |
don't think so silly didn't he go
for a meal after having broken up? | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
Yes, apparently she restrain to get
help. I don't see how he can | 0:08:30 | 0:08:36 | |
survive, the national executive
committee has the confidence but the | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
bigger question is will UKIP
survive? I think this will become a | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
rump party. Nigel Farage is in the
wings with his friend Aaron Banks | 0:08:45 | 0:08:54 | |
and they will put some sort of
movement together no doubt after the | 0:08:54 | 0:09:01 | |
loot, leave movements are already
there and to keep the reason they's | 0:09:01 | 0:09:08 | |
feet to the fire, what ever Glory...
It all sounds violent. Nigel Farage | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
did say that there is a role for a
party like UKIP, if it can pull | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
itself together because there are
people who feel that the government | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
might the backsliding on Brexit, a
soft Brexit, you may not notice we | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
have left, maybe there is a role but
at the moment it is not working out | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
for them. The thing about UKIP is,
they have always had the stories of | 0:09:30 | 0:09:36 | |
sort of, loose cannons around them,
this is not a new phenomenon, it has | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
been going back for years with some
of the slightly bigoted people | 0:09:40 | 0:09:46 | |
attracted to it. It did seem to be a
big hindrance in the past, support | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
going up and did very well in the
European elections, came top. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:58 | |
Despite stories, the trouble is that
since and the election, it has no | 0:09:58 | 0:10:03 | |
traction at all it seems, it seems
to have collapsed in support. Most | 0:10:03 | 0:10:10 | |
leaders, if you're executive
committee says they have no | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
confidence, there is no chance he
would carry on but such is the | 0:10:15 | 0:10:20 | |
state, Henry Bolte and obviously
thinks he has earned chance of the | 0:10:20 | 0:10:25 | |
membership backing him speaks to the
dysfunction in the movement. Do you | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
think they can survive without a
character like Nigel Farage? It | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
seems without him, they cannot. I
think they are employed in, quite | 0:10:33 | 0:10:38 | |
frankly. I think Nigel Farage will
be back on our screens because he | 0:10:38 | 0:10:43 | |
does not like to spell away. Did he
ever leave? There is an organisation | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
called leave means leave, I suspect
that he will take that over. Now, | 0:10:49 | 0:10:55 | |
the Times. Trust in social media
hits record low amid fears over fake | 0:10:55 | 0:11:02 | |
news. It is interesting that
mainstream media, a bump in people | 0:11:02 | 0:11:07 | |
's trust of mainstream media, TV,
radio and newspapers. This talks to | 0:11:07 | 0:11:13 | |
all sorts of things about Twitter
and other social media, people don't | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
necessarily trust it. You could
argue it is an encouraging story | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
because people are waking up to the
fact that fake news exist and one of | 0:11:22 | 0:11:27 | |
the main platforms for it is
Facebook. The trouble is, you are | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
comparing mainstream newspapers and
television is with Facebook is not | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
comparing like with like as a
source, a lot of people don't know | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
it. Betting if you open up Facebook,
it is not a producer of news it is a | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
platform for all sorts of content
coming onto it from all sources. So | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
one quarter of people trust the tech
publishing giants, that is | 0:11:49 | 0:11:54 | |
encouraging people seem to be waking
up to reality that they are not | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
reading some in from the content
producer just a random string of | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
stuff. Newspapers and TV actually
take responsibility for what goes on | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
this topic you could argue about its
politically -- validity, but someone | 0:12:07 | 0:12:15 | |
has taken charge of it. I assume for
a lot of young people getting their | 0:12:15 | 0:12:21 | |
news from Facebook and Twitter, it
is completely different, getting and | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
digestive and news very differently
from an older generation. I think | 0:12:24 | 0:12:30 | |
that is where the Tory party fell
down so badly during the last | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
election. In this particular article
there is another important point | 0:12:33 | 0:12:40 | |
made that people are concerned about
how extremism is portrayed on the | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
social media and the cyber bullying.
Patrols and all of that. We have | 0:12:44 | 0:12:49 | |
heard a lot about this recently, so
not merely do they think it is fake | 0:12:49 | 0:12:56 | |
news but they also think it needs
more regulation. There is a freedom | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
on social media that a lot of people
like but it is abused. Something has | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
to be done. Can you regulate
Facebook Tom Twitter in the same | 0:13:05 | 0:13:11 | |
way? Markers after Burke is actually
taking some serious action in recent | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
weeks to actually move a lot of
journalism off of the feeds, | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
downgrading it in response to these
concerns that it is feeding social | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
media bubbles and all of this fake
news getting pushed into people 's | 0:13:25 | 0:13:31 | |
lives through the platform.
Actually, maybe we will see how it | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
goes but that's it is neglecting its
off to some extent a bit there is | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
the point that a lot of social media
is self-selecting. You choose the | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
ones you want to hear and they are
often people who agree with you and | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
there is a lot of talk about this
discussion that people disagree with | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
each other is disappearing. It could
be true, but was it so different in | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
the past? You bought the paper that
reflected your, I was going to see | 0:13:55 | 0:14:01 | |
prejudices, or opinion. -- says.
People are selective in what they | 0:14:01 | 0:14:09 | |
read, they are and they have to be.
Let's move on, finally, to the | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
Telegraph. It has got a little piece
here. There has been a lot of people | 0:14:14 | 0:14:24 | |
in Westminster very upset about big
then, the fact it is being | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
refurbished and not act to its
former glory for many years. Covered | 0:14:29 | 0:14:35 | |
in scaffolding, it is resurrected
now and then and some saying that | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
when we leave the EU it should be
bonging. Passports and again seemed | 0:14:39 | 0:14:45 | |
to be the big symbols of Brexit. I
am all in favour. These totemic | 0:14:45 | 0:14:52 | |
images of Britain, as you were
saying, David Liddington, the | 0:14:52 | 0:14:58 | |
cabinet minister is not saying it
won't happen, he is saying there are | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
presently no arrangements for it. It
seems to be a way of the Telegraph | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
bouncing the government into saying
that it definitely will bong. I | 0:15:06 | 0:15:13 | |
shall raise a glass to you. I think
what we are seeing here is the start | 0:15:13 | 0:15:21 | |
of a campaign, maybe. Will you
launch a petition to get this going? | 0:15:21 | 0:15:27 | |
I must tweet for this, Big Ben bongs
for Brexit. And stamps. We had | 0:15:27 | 0:15:38 | |
stamps when we joined in 1974 and as
I said earlier, I possess a set of | 0:15:38 | 0:15:44 | |
these stamps, a first day cover. I
think we should have stamps. I am | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
using this opportunity to say to the
Royal Mail, get your stamps out. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:54 | |
Stamps and Big Ben. Stamps and
bongs. Thank you so much. That is it | 0:15:54 | 0:16:03 | |
for the papers tonight. You can see
the front pages online and on the | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
BBC website. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
If you miss the programme any | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
evening you can watch it
later on BBC iPlayer. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Thank you Ben and Ruth. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
Goodbye. | 0:16:18 | 0:16:19 |